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April 12th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday that attempts by al-Qaeda to transform Syria into its stronghold in the region worried Moscow.
“Russia strongly and unequivocally condemns terrorism in any of its forms and manifestations,” according to the statement.
Russia’s statement came after Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani, the head of the terrorist al-Nusra Front in Syria, pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in an audio message on April 10.
Jawlani’s remarks came a day after the leader of al-Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq network, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, announced merger with the al-Nusra Front to play an even greater role in the crisis in Syria.
Baghdadi said in a recording, “It is time to declare to the Levant and to the world that the al-Nusra Front is simply a branch of the Islamic State of Iraq.”
The Russian statement also added that Moscow was worried about a potential spillover of the crisis in Syria to Lebanon.
On April 4, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said the ongoing turmoil in Syria was turning the country into a center of attraction for ‘international terrorists.’
“Syria’s transformation into the center of gravity for international terrorists is becoming a reality,” Lukashevich said.
The al-Nusra Front has been behind many of the deadly bombings targeting both civilians and government institutions across Syria since the beginning of violence in March 2011.
While al-Qaeda-linked groups have been listed as terrorist entities under sanctions by the United Nations, militants in Syria, including those belonging to the al-Nusra Front, have been receiving all forms of support from the West.
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